A&B owners' actions speak volumes

Monday

Jan 28, 2008 at 12:01 AM

Editor, the Record:

Editor, the Record:

According to a news article in the Pocono Record on Jan. 8, Robert Starrett of Michael Baxter & Associates made the remark that Art and Bev Baio of A&B Fuel are "good people caught up in a God awful situation." Oh really!

Having also agreed, verbally, to a contract with A&B for the 2007/2008 upcoming heating season, A&B submitted the charge to our credit card company on Feb. 28, 2007, the date of the verbal agreement. After contacting them numerous times, they finally sent us the contract on April 17, 2007, for our signature. Sort of makes you wonder if they were already having problems.

Unless I am mistaken, I also read that the Baios' personal property cannot be touched unless it is proven that fraud was committed! Does it not seem that fraud must be the case as the Baios were still accepting pre-buys from people not only as late as November and into December, but as I heard a woman say on the news on Channel 5, a pre-buy of $500 was accepted from her on the very day the doors at A&B closed. Hmmm — might something be amiss here?

How many people were literally left out in the cold by the Baios' actions? How many people were not lucky enough to have paid for their contracts with a credit card?

How many folks are sitting in the cold, as they don't have enough money to pay for fuel a second time?

I find it difficult to think there could be any loophole in our legal system that would absolve these people of the wrongdoing! Let's see who will have the nerve to represent these two.